TS: Tessie vs. Teh Rally Monkey: 2009 ALDS - Angels vs. Red Sox

angels in 5

angels in 6

Whoops it's a best of 5! Angels in 4.

angels, 4

angels in 5.

angels in 4, with accusations of cheating by means of an invisible 10th player on the field

http://www.beliefnet.com/~/media/9DCF48AE2A904384BB6E33C483A99144.ashx?w=333&h=250

LAA-4

I'll stick with recent history and say BoSox in 3.

sox in 4

LAA in 5

i want nothing more than to say angels but boston will win ~ prob in 4

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bosox 3

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ALDS 'B'
Game Matchup Day Date Time ET TV
Gm 1 BOS @ LAA Wed Oct. 8 9:37pm TBS
Gm 2 BOS @ LAA Fri Oct. 9 9:37pm TBS
Gm 3 LAA @ BOS Sun Oct. 11 TBD TBS
Gm 4* LAA @ BOS Mon Oct. 12 TBD TBS
Gm 5* BOS @ LAA Wed Oct. 14 TBD TBS

I think I picked Angels. Angels in five.

schedule above is INcorrect:

Gm 1 BOS @ LAA Thu Oct. 8 9:37 PM TBS

and here we are... Buck Martinez has noticed Varitek is not the catcher

lol i'm so not excited for this series

because...? These are the 2nd & 3rd best teams in baseball!

just kinda bored with baseball i think tbh :(

Honest question: Does it have anything to do with Manny and Ortiz getting busted for HGH and steroids?

i TOTALLY miss manny being on the team and hate how that whole thing went down, but honestly no it has nothing to do with roids.

basically, it's like, for the money they spend on the team (which is passed on in the sense that i essentially can't afford to go to fenway) this is the baseline level of performance i can expect--95 wins and a realistic shot at the playoffs. i can find joy in individual moments and performances but in a macro sense i'm like, ok, we made it, breaks good and bad will determine it from here.

that is totally informed by the win in 04 of course but still when you learn more abt baseball there's something so goofy about getting worked up over the postseason.

maybe jaded by an embarrassment of championships?

smore like, and i don't want to salt any wounds here, for this payroll (and the aforementioned cost to the fan) anything less than a chance at 95 wins and the playoffs would be disgraceful.

Not to sound like a shill, but watching these games with all the alternate MLB.com angles and PitchFX data etc synced up to the TV broadcast is fucking mindblowing.

oh for fucks sake cb bucknor is dense

maybe he wants to get it over with before last call at tc's lounge?

which is a joke that would make more sense if they were playing in boston i guess

hey it's cb bucknor--he may think they are in boston

out

man rooting against the red sox is nice but i think i'd rather the yankees played them

what the fuck is buck martinez even talking about

(re "my answer to that is...pitch later into the game") http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-smug.gif

oh my fuckin god

wtf that wasn't even close!

mlb umpires are the most disgusting savages

Does the plate umpire not have the prerogative to offer his opinion without being asked?

cause he probably saw that

ughhhhh. left the bar after the angels scored those last(???) two runs.

can't say i'm sober enough to be questioning any umpires but anyway u slice it, it seems the sox are fuckin up iirc.

bucknow was just retarded but it didn't really matter, 3-run homers and a comatose offense mattered tbh

For all you are bored, cad, I fell asleep in the 4th inning.

that is totally informed by the win in 04 of course

As Denis Leary told Conan about '04, "They won. They beat the Yankees. It's OVER." Both franchises should've been contracted. What we're seeing now is the equivalent of the Star Wars prequels.

ha ha

hahaha i half-watched, worked on a library class assignment, and bitched about lou jag getting banned.

i can't fuckin believe i agree with denis leary.

how about that line for ramon ramirez?

1 bb, 1 hbp, e1

0 ip

Then there's Abreu:

0 1 0 0

Four BBs on 25 pitches.

i got no prob with pitching around bobby abreu

V-Mart w/ the ribby heah

where are all the Jered fans?

Cmon bobby

love how every dude in the crowd under 30 looks either exactly like the craigslist killer or exactly like an extra in "boston beatdown ii"

who didn't see that coming

CLANG

Do they have a microphone on the Monster or something? That was loud.

wha happened

i can't even watch

love how every dude in the crowd under 30 looks either exactly like the craigslist killer or exactly like an extra in "boston beatdown ii"

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hahaha

woooooooooooooooooooooooooow

YEAH!

FUCK YEAH

YEAH VLADIE

fuuuuuuck

<3 vald g

hahahahaha

fuckin a

Papelbombed

(holy Omir Santos)

I am blasting "Total Eclipse of the Heart" right now and it really fits somehow.

lmaooooooooooooo

haha why would they walk Hunter to get to Vladi?

http://www.cnnsi.com/2007/images/10/30/papelbon_clicks.jpg

If only the Angels had a closer.

the all-important force at home i guess? who knows

paps ;_;

Troy Percival comin outta retirement in 5 mins

DIE RAY ROMANO (btw)

What a waste of Andre Braugher

"jed lowrie pinch hitting for the red sox" = RIP

^

xpost: ^

This broadcast team does not sound particularly excited.

i think the ghost of manny ramirez just opened the door in the green monster?

Angels/Dodgers World Series would be sweet.

the red sox postseason forgot to shut the door after itself!!

Andy - don orsillo is the regular voice of the red sox on nesn

can't believe we're gonna get out of this series without at least one fuentes trainwreck

the tbs scoreboard momentarily couldn't decide if the game was 7-6 red sox, a 7-7 tie, or 7-6 angels.

<3 u angels

THIS IS MY HOUSE BABY

:D

the yanks don't like this result imo

Game stolen like some high school laptops.

xpost

(I know, Tracer.)

omar i agree

abreu look dangerous every time you see him (so does aybar) - pretty fun team to watch what with chone and torii and vladdy and the rest of em - go get em halos

yeah id rather play the sox but i go to school in new england so seeing lots of sox fans :( will be a traet

my postseason predictions on track to be even more wrong than my preseason ones

2/2 so far

0/2 and the 2 remaining are the challops

Papelbitch moment of truth

Eckersley has declared it a "character builder."

http://d.yimg.com/a/p/sp/getty/84/fullj.2c0bf16ff726b24dadb09bc921a17513/2c0bf16ff726b24dadb09bc921a17513-getty-.jpg

well at least papelbon didn't give up a home run to a cripple, eck

Youk/Ortiz = 2-24
RedSox = 1 HR